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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Absolutely Fabulous Going Big Screen

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A few months ago it was revealed that Jennifer Saunders was hoping to put together an Absolutely Fabulous reunion, letting us catch up on Edina and Patsy 20 years after they first debuted back in 1992. However at the time, it was assumed that whatever Saunders came up with would appear on TV. Now though, it looks like it’ll be getting a cinematic outing, according to Deadline.

Jennifer Saunders apparently plans to start work on the script after she finished writing the Spice Girls musical, Viva Forever. It’s been suggested that the movie, tentatively titled Ab Fab: The Movie (which is stunningly uninventive), will begin with Edina and Patsy waking up, hung over, on a yacht in the middle of the ocean, with no cell phone signal to call for help.

It’s early days though, as while BBC Films boss Christine Langan commented, “I think she’s a genius. I can’t imagine anything more exciting than working with her,” no proper deal is currently in place with Jennifer Saunders for the movie yet. Let’s hope it all come together.

 

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Guy Pearce & Ben Foster Go Queer For Steve Buscemi

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William Burroughs’ follow-up to his novel Junkie, Queer, wasn’t published for 30 years, partly due to its homosexual content (Burroughs having accidentally shot his wife to death around the time he wrote it in the 50s didn’t help either). However it turns out Steve Buscemi reckons it’ll make a good movie, so he’s lining up a great cast to help bring it to life.

Vulture has been talking to Oren Moverman, who wrote the script for Queer, who told them that Guy Pearce, Ben Foster, and Kelly MacDonald will all star in the movie. Burroughs’ book is about William Lee, an American in Mexico City in the 1940s, who travels to Ecuador with his reluctant lover, Eugene Allerton, in search of the drug Yage. Lee is essentially Burroughs alter-ego after he killed his wife, weighed down by guilt, drugs, lust and despair; seeking oblivion. It’s also a more straightforward narrative than much of Burroughs’ later work, making it easier to adapt into a movie.

It’s not certain what roles Pearce, Foster and MacDonald will play, or indeed when Steve Buscemi will direct the movie, although it’s expected after the end of shooting on the next season of Boardwalk Empire.

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Wanderlust Trailer

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It’s comedy time with Paul Russ and Jennifer Aniston, with a trailer where you can’t tell if this film will be fun or just excruciating! George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George’s awful brother in Atlanta.On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can’t buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them! Wanderlust hits UK cinemas March 2nd, 2012.

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Crush Of The Day: Kevin Bishop In May I Kill You

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Aww, look at him on his little bike. That’s Kevin Bishop above in one of the first pics from the new Brit flick May I Kill You, in which he plays a cycling vigilante cop who has his own way of dealing with London’s ‘scum’. Set against the backdrop of the recent London riots (recreated in Wimbledon). Take a look at some more pics from the movie below. [Read more…]

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Eddie Redmayne Joins Les Miserables

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After so many years of people trying and failing to get a film version of the Les Miserables musical off the ground, it’s hard to believe it’s really happening, but it is. Now the the cast has grown once more, with Deadline reporting that Eddie Redmayne is joining Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway in the film.

The Pillars Of The Earth actor will portray Marius, a role that’s been played on stage by everyone from Michael Ball to, um, Jon from S Club 7.  Les Miserables is set in the revolutionary France and revolves around Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who must carry a yellow passport branding him as an ex-convict after being released from a 19-year prison sentence. Russell Crowe will be Inspector Javert, a policeman who keeps pursuing Jean Valjean, even though he is a free man. Anne Hathaway plays the female lead, Fantine.

Marius meanwhile is a student revolutionary who falls for Valjean’s adpoted daughter, Cosette.

Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) is directing Les Miserables from a screenplay by William Nicholson. Production is expected to start fairly soon.

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The Help (Cinema)

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Set in Mississippi in the early 60s, The Help deals with the world of segregation, when black women raised the children of white women, but weren’t allowed to use the same drinking fountains, sit in the same part of the bus and, as the movie says, often couldn’t even use the same toilet.

Young, rather liberal, Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns home after getting a college education to find that the black maid she’s known and loved since childhood, Constantine (Cicely Tyson), no longer works for them, but nobody will tell her exactly why not. While all Skeeter’s friends are busy becoming wives and mothers – and never questioning the idea that the black women who work in their houses should be treated as second class citizens – Skeeter embarks on a project to write a book about these maid’s experience of lif. However she needs to recruit some of ‘the help’ to tell her about their lives. [Read more…]

Bradley Cooper May Be Man From U.N.C.L.E

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Despite The Man From U.N.C.L.E. being a classic TV show and Steven Soderbergh planning to be behind the camera for a film version, it’s had a lot of difficulty finding a leading man. The likes of Johnny Depp and Matt Damon have passed on the film, and while George Clooney was attached for a while, he recently walked. Now it looks like it may have found somebody, as Variety reports that Bradley Cooper is in talks to play Napoleon Solo.

The plot revolves around two agents for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E) – Napoleon Solo and his Russian counterpart, Illya Kuryakin, who are committed to saving the world from the evil forces of the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity (T.H.R.U.S.H.). They were played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum in the original show.

Scott Z. Burns (World War Z) is on scripting duties, with Soderbergh keen to keep the classic 60s setting of the TV show. The movie is expected to go into production early next year.

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Fruit Fly (DVD)

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Towards the end of HP Mendoza’s directorial debut musical, Fruit Fly, there’s a song where the cast sing about doing workshop versions of stage productions. While presumably the inference is that much of life feels like a workshop for the main act, when it is actually the main act, I couldn’t help wondering whether it was actually a bit of a mea culpa for the movie itself.

It’s not that the movie is bad – far from it in fact – just that it does have the feel of being a workshop that hasn’t quite found itself yet, which becomes evident when it has to resort unnecessarily to postmodern effects to underline its themes and ideas. But enough with the poncey deconstruction. Is it worth a look? [Read more…]